Psychotherapy after brain injury
Subtitle: principles and techniques
By: Pamela S. Klonoff
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781606238615
Description: "This book presents hands-on tools for addressing the multiple ways that brain injury can affect psychological functioning and well-being. The author is a leader in the field who translates her extensive clinical experience into clear-cut yet flexible guidelines that therapists can adapt for different challenges and settings. With a focus on facilitating awareness, coping, competence, adjustment, and community reintegration, the book features helpful case examples and reproducible handouts and forms. It shows how to weave together individual psychotherapy, cognitive retraining, group and family work, psychoeducation, and life skills training, and how to build and maintain a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Subject Areas/Keywords: adjustment, assessments, clinical neuropsychology, cognition, cognitive retraining, counseling, deficits, disorders, families, family, head injury, impairments, interventions, neurological, patients, psychoeducational, psychosocial, psychotherapy, recovery, rehabilitation, remediation, sports injuries, stress, trauma, traumatic brain injury, treatments Audience: Neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, counselors, and other professionals who work with brain-injured clients and their families"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.